Prologue: De te fabula narratur -- Days of the dead -- The Sophie letters -- Miss del Valle -- The mastermind -- Interlude: Tere Huidobro -- Little flowers -- Sofia's belle epoque -- Vocation -- Respectable telephone operator -- Preparing the future -- Interlude: family albums -- The catacombs -- The voyage -- The test -- Gasparri's parrots -- A long, hot Roman summer -- The return -- The peace -- Interlude: las viejitas -- Out of the shadows -- The new woman -- Resistance -- Les femmes internationales -- Terrible beasts -- Winter in the city of light -- Doubt -- Lourdes -- The road to Warsaw -- Borders -- Bridges -- Interlude: walls -- Miss del Valle goes to Washington -- The plan -- The deception of Miss Duffy -- Consider the lobster -- Golden hour of the little flower -- On the road -- La Patria calls -- Postlude: day's end -- Matins, a few days after
Summary
"The story of a woman named Sofía del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, which tells the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the central importance women played in Catholic survival and change over the course of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2019)
